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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shoak1" data-source="post: 7723372" data-attributes="member: 54380">Comparing potential Golden Ages takes data from both eras, something that has not been presented here by ANYONE. I would love to look at data from the 80s that tells us about market shares and such, but it doesn't appear to be forthcoming to aid us in evaluating the Golden Age question here. In the absence of such data, educated guesses, and life experiences/ancedotes are the next best thing we have to use.If you present data that the number of people smoking is growing, and that we are therefore in a "Smoking Golden Age," I would say waiiiiitttt a minute - even if there was no data available from other eras.  I remember people smoked everywhere back in the 70s - on planes, trains, and automobiles, in offices, homes, public buildings, and restaurants, around kids and in hospitals.  I would KNOW that today's smoking population was nowhere close, as a percentage of population and in amount smoked, to that of the 70s.So instead of just dismissing my experiences and guesses, and since you are old enough to have lived through it and been into D and D at the time, how about venturing some guesses based on your experience?  Do you think RPGs consisted of only 3% of the hobby gaming industry back then?  Do you think that the hobby gaming industry back then had a competitor (for GAMERS) like the video game industry that was almost 100 times larger than the hobby gaming industry at the time?  Do YOU think today's D and D is as big a deal to gamers in the USA today as it was in the 80s?</blockquote>

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